Re: [Tinycc-devel] Annoying new warning

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2017-05-05 13:02:05 +0200, grischka wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > But this can hide bugs, e.g. if in the future this function is called
> > by the ARM backend. It would be better either not to define this
> > function at all (best solution at it doesn't make sense on the ARM,
> > and issues would be detected at compile time) or have something like
> > an assert to abort if this function is called.
> 
> Let tcc insert a library function that will abort peoples' programs
> to me clearly sounds like a second to best solution. ;)

It should never be called on ARM, thus should never abort peoples'
programs. That's still better than generating broken code, which
could have security implications.

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